A.S.M. Shihavuddin, who graduated from the EEE Department of IUT, is currently working as Chairperson of the Department of EEE at Green University of Bangladesh (GUB). He is renowned for his contributions in the fields of Computer Vision and Deep Learning. He worked as an Associate Professor in the CSE Department of ULAB and the CSE Department of IUB. Earlier, he worked as an Assistant professor at DTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark. He previously worked in the same department as a postdoctoral researcher for 10 months on "Automated damage detection from wind turbine inspection images with deep learning". He completed his first postdoc at Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS), Paris with the computational biology and bioinformatics group. His principal research area was to develop machine learning and image analysis algorithms in the study of ependymal cell microscopy images. He obtained his Ph.D. from the VICOROB group, Universitat De Girona (UDG) Spain. His main research problem was “Automated Underwater Object classification using Optical Imagery”. He completed his MSc in "European Masters in Computer Vision and Robotics (VIBOT)" under Erasmus Mundus Grants. Earlier, in 2006, he joined IUT as a lecturer in the EEE Department and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 2011. In 2014, he earned his MBA from the Marketing Department of the University of Dhaka.